In the modern world, racism is a familiar hot-button issue.

Would the ancient Romans have understood what the term meant?

Did they even think about people in terms of racial groups?

Were their conquests at all motivated by racist sentiment?

As ever, the Roman world turns out to be quite different from our own--the answers aren't simple, but they may be surprising.

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